You're reading from AI-Assisted Programming for Web and Machine Learning Improve your development workflow with ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835086056

Length 602 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

ChatGPT

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Authors (5):

Marina Fernandez

Ajit Jaokar

Anjali Jain

Christoffer Noring

Ayşe Mutlu

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. It’s a New World, One with AI Assistants, and You’re Invited FREE CHAPTER

2. Prompt Strategy

3. Tools of the Trade: Introducing Our AI Assistants

4. Build the Appearance of Our App with HTML and Copilot

5. Style the App with CSS and Copilot

6. Add Behavior with JavaScript

7. Support Multiple Viewports Using Responsive Web Layouts

8. Build a Backend with Web APIs

9. Augment Web Apps with AI Services

10. Maintaining Existing Codebases

11. Data Exploration with ChatGPT

12. Building a Classification Model with ChatGPT

13. Building a Regression Model for Customer Spend with ChatGPT

14. Building an MLP Model for Fashion-MNIST with ChatGPT

15. Building a CNN Model for CIFAR-10 with ChatGPT

16. Unsupervised Learning: Clustering and PCA

17. Machine Learning with Copilot

18. Regression with Copilot Chat

19. Regression with Copilot Suggestions

20. Increasing Efficiency with GitHub Copilot

21. Agents in Software Development

22. Conclusion

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

24. Index

What are agents?

As mentioned previously, agents are programs that can act on your behalf. They can perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with other agents and humans. Agents can be used in a wide range of applications.

Several things make a program an agent program versus just a program:

Agent programs have a clear goal: For instance, take a thermostat keeping the temperature at 25 degrees and taking appropriate actions to keep it there, or an agent managing finances and trying to maximize your profit.
Autonomous: An agent makes necessary decisions to ensure it meets a goal as defined previously. For a finance agent, that could mean buying and selling stocks when they meet a specific trigger condition.
Has sensors: Sensors are either physical or could be an API in software, something that enables an agent to understand “what the world is like.” For a thermostat, a sensor is a temperature indicator, but for a finance agent, a sensor can...